Hey! How about that Carbondale?!
Locals for Smarter Growth in a major victory. Snagging front and center with Ride the Rockies this summer. Going all out with trying to get Creative District funding. Incredible building up of main street with unparalleled art and street events.
Basically, it could be said that BoneDale is kicking bu** and taking names in the tourism marketing and economic development arena.
Which brings us back to the question that has been on the inquiring minds of locals for the past decade.
Where in the world is Glenwood Springs? None of these extra effort movements have ever been made by our marketing and economic development efforts. The sole focus is over-burden and gimmicks to our accommodations tax and concentrated crony capitalizing special interests.
Congratulations to Tami Stroud and her group on pulling together their vision of expanding community agriculture into a work of downtown and community 'art'.
You are appreciated and we can't wait to see the fruits of your efforts. No doubt they will taste that much sweeter having all the local and regional effort that is now behind them.
John Colson:
"CARBONDALE, Colorado — The local food movement got a boost from the town government this week, in the form of approval for a Great Outdoors Colorado grant application to build a second community garden.
The Carbondale Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved a $45,000 GOCO grant, primarily to pay for an irrigation pump and piping system that will bring water from a town ditch to the garden site.
The trustees directed recreation director Jeff Jackel to take charge of the grant application and submit it by the March 2 deadline, Jackel said on Wednesday.
The garden is to be laid out at the southern edge of the Third Street Center property (formerly Carbondale Elementary School), and is to contain roughly 60 garden plots to be rented out to local gardeners.
The existing community garden, located adjacent to Crystal Meadows Senior Housing, contains 22 plots. Of these, 15 of are reserved for residents of the senior housing complex, according to community garden organizer Tami Stroud.
(Disclosure: Tami Stroud is the wife of Post Independent reporter John Stroud.)
Stroud noted that the state requires a 25 percent local match, or $15,000 of the overall project cost of up to $60,000, for the project to be eligible for the GOCO grant.
“We've already got that,” Stroud said. The project has received grants from the town, the Aspen Skiing Co. Environment Foundation and Fiskars Tools, plus in-kind donations.
According to a memo to the trustees from Jackel, the idea for a second community garden has been around since 2009...."Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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